Art, guitars, Rickenbacker and Gibson thinlines,Vox amplifiers, redwood trees and sword ferns
Cool with Artists , Musicians and lumberjacks alike
BEATLES, Ramones, Kinks, BIG STAR !, the Who, FASTBACKS ! ,the Byrds,Oranger, STOOGES,Flamin Groovies,Long Ryders, Dream Syndicate,Mudhoney,Young Fresh Fellows,GAME THEORY, loud Family, the Shins, Posies,Thelonius Sphere Monk,UFOMAMMUT ,Art Pepper,Adolescents ,gore gore Girls,Shonen Knife ,minus 5 ,soft Boys, HOODOO GURUS,Screaming Tribesmen,Belle And Sebastian,Flipper,descendents,Redd Kross,DEMONICS , The Beards,Buck,Cub ,Groovie Ghoulies, TEENAGE FANCLUB ,the Smiths,THE MUFFS ,WILCO,Travis,Jellyfish,GUIDED BY VOICES,Interpol ,Blonde Redhead,Standells, Chocolate Watchband , Moby Grape, BLACK SABBATH STEPPENWOLF plus a bunch of the Elephant6 collective,like Olivia Tremor Control and neutral milk hotel& numorious jangle guitar based bands,with Feedback and Tremelo
When I was a kid the only movies I saw werefistfull of Dollars, A few Dollars More, Good the bad and the Ugly, They came to rob vegas, Bullit, and the Battle of Brittin,then nothing till Legend of Bogie creak.Not untill Star wars did I go again.hence I go to movies often now, all kinds,trashy and high art
Ask the Dust by John Fante the Things they carried -Tim O Brian Desolation Angels - Jack Keroauc Ham on Rye- Bukowski Hard boiled wonderland and the end of the world-Murikami
Beat Artists Wally Berman, Bruce Conner,Wally Hedrick,David Park,Philip Guston have been the only contempoary influences. consistency of quality of work over consistency of imagry